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Who is Afraid of the Rakshas Sweetie-Man?Author: Ranjit LalIllustrator: Lavanya Naidu
The twins Samar and Nivya are waiting for the school bus.
“Do not turn around. He is staring at us!” Samar hisses at his sister Nivya.
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The Rakshas Sweetie-Man is watching thechildren from his shopacross the road.
He is huge and scary!
“His face is like abulldog!” Samar says rudely.
“His nose is like asamosa!” Nivya says.“And his fingers look likehairy bhindis!”
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The Rakshas Sweetie-Man may be scary, but he has the most fabulous sweet, toysand general shop – the Lovely Sweetie and Toy Shop.
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It has large piles of colourful sweets and chocolates.
They see other children go into the shopbut the twins are too scared to buy a single sweetie or toy from him.
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Once, they had seen heaps of a newchocolate in the shop.
They decided to be brave, and went inside.
“Pl…please, can we have thatchocolate?” Samar mumbled.
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The Rakshas Sweetie-Man leaned across the counter, and reached out for themwith his huge python-like arms.
“Your teeth will fall out!” he grumbled softly.
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He took out a dreadful pair of false teeth from his cashdrawer. He snapped it at the children.Samar and Nivya took one look and fled!
“He was going to bite us with those teeth,” Nivya saidtrembling, once they were safely home.They never dared go back again.
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But today, Samar and Nivya see something even more scary. The Rakshas Sweetie-Man is holding awriggling puppy close to his face and rumbling! Then hetakes the puppy inside his shop and disappears.
“Oh no! He is going to cook the puppy and eat her!”Nivya squeals.
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Samar and Nivya are sure that their own dog Lolo andher six new puppies are in danger.
“We will not let the Rakshas Sweetie-Man cook you all,”says Nivya.
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But the next day, when Ma goes to themarket, she leaves thegate open.
Samar and Nivya watch inhorror as all the sixpuppies run out – andstraight into the RakshasSweetie-Man’s shop!
“He is going to eat themtoo, now!” Samar cries.“We have to rescuethem!”
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Samar and Nivya hold hands and slowly walk into the dark cave of the shop.No one is there!
At the back, a door is half open. Trembling, they push it open.12
The Rakshas Sweetie-Man looks at the children and beams.“Look,” he rumbles, “they are not afraid!”
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Illustration Attributions:Cover page: Man eating sweets, by Lavanya Naidu © Pratham Books, 2017. Some rights reserved. Released under CC BY 4.0 license. Page 2: Children whispering at abus stop, by Lavanya Naidu © Pratham Books, 2017. Some rights reserved. Released under CC BY 4.0 license. Page 3: Angry man crushing a bar of chocolate, byLavanya Naidu © Pratham Books, 2017. Some rights reserved. Released under CC BY 4.0 license. Page 4: Man in a sweet shop and two children peeking inside, byLavanya Naidu © Pratham Books, 2017. Some rights reserved. Released under CC BY 4.0 license. Page 5: Boxes and jars of sweets, by Lavanya Naidu © PrathamBooks, 2017. Some rights reserved. Released under CC BY 4.0 license. Page 6: Children in a candy shop pointing at chocolates, by Lavanya Naidu © Pratham Books,2017. Some rights reserved. Released under CC BY 4.0 license. Page 7: Sared children looking at a man, by Lavanya Naidu © Pratham Books, 2017. Some rightsreserved. Released under CC BY 4.0 license. Page 8: Children being chased by dentures , by Lavanya Naidu © Pratham Books, 2017. Some rights reserved. Releasedunder CC BY 4.0 license. Page 9: A man holding a puppy, by Lavanya Naidu © Pratham Books, 2017. Some rights reserved. Released under CC BY 4.0 license. Page10: Children playing with puppies, by Lavanya Naidu © Pratham Books, 2017. Some rights reserved. Released under CC BY 4.0 license. Page 11: Dogs and puppiesrunning out of a gate while children look on, by Lavanya Naidu © Pratham Books, 2017. Some rights reserved. Released under CC BY 4.0 license.
This book was made possible by Pratham Books' StoryWeaver platform. Content under CreativeCommons licenses can be downloaded, translated and can even be used to create new stories ‐provided you give appropriate credit, and indicate if changes were made. To know more about this,and the full terms of use and attribution, please visit the following link.
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Some rights reserved. This book is CC -BY -4.0 licensed. You can copy, modify, distributeand perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.For full terms of use and attribution, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Illustration Attributions:Page 12: Children tentatively entering a dark shop, by Lavanya Naidu © Pratham Books, 2017. Some rights reserved. Released under CC BY 4.0 license. Page 13: Aman playing with six puppies, by Lavanya Naidu © Pratham Books, 2017. Some rights reserved. Released under CC BY 4.0 license.
This is a Level 2 book for children who recognize familiar words and can read new words with help.
(English)
Who is Afraid of theRakshas Sweetie-Man? Samar and Nivya are terrified of the Rakshas Sweetie-Man. He looks
scary, and oh, does he eat little puppies? When their six puppies runinto the Rakshas Sweetie-Man’s shop, the twins must rescue them. Butthen they get the biggest surprise ever!
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